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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 4, Fable 36</span><span class="fp-text">LE JOUEUR DE FLÛTE IMPUDENT</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber IV, Fabula XXXVI</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">PROCAX TIBICEN</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Lorsqu'un esprit plein de vanité, ébloui d'une faveur passagère,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">se laisse aller à sa folle présomption,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">son sot orgueil le rend le jouet de tout le monde.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ubi vanus animus aura captus frivola</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="arripuit  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">abripuit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="abripuit  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">arripuit</span></span> insolentem sibi fiduciam,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">facile ad derisum <span class="fp-correction" title="et  (orig. avec err. de synt.)"><span class="fp-no-difference">[...]</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="...  (err. de synt. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">et</span></span> stulta levitas ducitur.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le prince, joueur de flûte de quelque renommée,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">accompagnait Bathylle dans ses pantomimes.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un jour qu'on célébrait des jeux (je ne sais plus lesquels),</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il fit, dans un changement de décors, au moment où il s'y attendait le moins,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">une chute grave et se cassa le tibia gauche.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Il eût mieux aimé casser ses deux flûtes droites.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">On l'enleva et on l'emporta chez lui, poussant de grands gémissements.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Plusieurs mois se passèrent</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">avant qu'il fût entièrement rétabli.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Les spectateurs, comme toujours,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">commencèrent à regretter leur bon musicien qui, par les sons de sa flûte,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">animait les danses du souple Bathylle.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Princeps <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n139/mode/1up">p.76</a>]</span> tibicen notior paulo fuit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">operam Bathyllo solitus in <span class="fp-correction" title="chena  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">scena</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="scena  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">chena</span></span> dare.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Is forte ludis, non satis memini quibus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">dum <span class="fp-correction" title="pecma  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">pegma</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="pegma  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">pecma</span></span> rapitur concidit casu gravi,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Nec <span class="fp-correction" title="opia sed  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">opinans et</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="opinans et  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">opia sed</span></span> sinistram fregit tibiam,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">duas cum dextras maluisset perdere.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Inter manus sublatus et multum gemens</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">domum refertur. Aliquot menses <span class="fp-correction" title="transent  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">transeunt</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="transeunt  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">transent</span></span>,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ad sanitatem dum venit curatio.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ut spectatorum mos est et lepidum genus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">desiderari coepit, cujus flatibus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">solebat excitari saltantis vigor.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un Romain distingué allait donner des jeux</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et le prince commençait alors à marcher.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Il obtient, à force de prières et d'argent,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">que le musicien se montrera le jour même du spectacle.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le moment venu, on ne parla que du joueur de flûte,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">dans le théâtre. Les uns soutenaient qu'il était mort,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">22&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">d'autres qu'il allait paraître tout à l'heure.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">23&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">On baisse la toile, le tonnerre gronde</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">24&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et les dieux parlent selon leur coutume.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">25&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le chœur alors entonne un hymne inconnu au joueur de flûte récemment revenu</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">26&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et dont le sens était&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">27&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Rome, réjouis-toi, tu renais, le prince est sauvé&nbsp;!&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">28&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">On se leva pour applaudir. Le prince aussitôt d'envoyer des baisers,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">29&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">croyant que ses admirateurs le félicitaient.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">30&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Les chevaliers voient sa sotte erreur</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">31&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et ils demandent en riant de tout cœur que l'hymne soit répété.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">32&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">On le recommence, notre homme de se prosterner jusqu'à terre,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">33&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et les chevaliers d'applaudir encore pour se moquer de lui.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">34&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le peuple pensait qu'il voulait une couronne.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">35&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Mais dès que son histoire fut connue sur tous les gradins,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">36&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">le prince, qui s'enorgueillissait des honneurs rendus au divin Auguste,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">37&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">fut, malgré sa robe blanche, ses souliers blancs</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">38&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et la bandelette blanche qui lui enveloppait la jambe,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">39&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">jeté dehors, la tête la première, par tous les spectateurs.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Erat facturus ludos quidam nobilis.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Et incipiebat princeps <span class="fp-correction" title="abduci reum  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">rursum</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="rursum  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">abduci reum</span></span> ingredi,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">a se reducit pretio precibus, ut tantummodo</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ipso ludorum ostenderet sese die.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Qui simul advenit, rumor de tibicine</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="fremet  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">fremit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="fremit  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">fremet</span></span> in theatro. Quidam adfirmant mortuum,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">22&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quidam in conspectum proditurum sine mora.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">23&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="Auleo  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">Aulaeo</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Aulaeo  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Auleo</span></span> <span class="fp-correction" title="miso  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">misso</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="misso  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">miso</span></span>, devolutis tonitribus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">24&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">dii sunt locuti <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n140/mode/1up">p.77</a>]</span> more translaticio.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">25&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Tunc chorus ignotum <span class="fp-correction" title="more ducto  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">modo reducto</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="modo reducto  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">more ducto</span></span> canticum</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">26&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">inposuit, cujus haec fuit sententia&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">27&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Laetare, incolumis Roma, salvo principe.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">28&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">In plausus consurrectum est. Jactat basia</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">29&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="tybicen  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">tibicen</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="tibicen  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">tybicen</span></span> ; gratulari fautores putat.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">30&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Equester ordo stultum errorem intellegit</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">31&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">magnoque risu canticum repeti jubet.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">32&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Iteratur <span class="fp-correction" title="illyd  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">illud</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="illud  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">illyd</span></span>. Homo meus se in pulpito</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">33&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">totum prosternit. Plaudit inludens eques ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">34&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">rogare populus hunc coronam existimat.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">35&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ut vero cuneis notuit res omnibus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">36&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">princeps, ligato crure nivea fascia,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">37&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">niveisque tunicis, niveis etiam calceis,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">38&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">superbiens <span class="fp-correction" title="honorem vidit  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">honore</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="honore  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">honorem vidit</span></span> <span class="fp-correction" title="divine  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">divinae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="divinae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">divine</span></span> domus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">39&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ab universis capite est protrusus foras.</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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